Pittsburgh, PA Twists English Language To Defend New Gun Law

By Cam Edwards

Pittsburgh, PA is defending a series of local ordinances approved by the City Council and mayor in violation of the state’s firearm pre-emption law, and one ordinance dealing with “large capacity magazines” has brought out a linguistically and logically tortured argument in an attempt to uphold the law. According to the attorneys for Everytown for Gun Safety, which is defending Pittsburgh’s ordinances free of charge, “using” a magazine has nothing to do with “possessing” a magazine.

City lawyers called four city residents’ arguments against a newly passed gun law “erroneous” in a legal brief filed this week.

The brief, filed Tuesday, argues that the plaintiffs misinterpreted the city’s ordinance as a “ban” on large-capacity magazines — defined as holding more than 10 ammunition rounds — when the law states that what is prohibited is “use” in public places.

“As a result, there is no genuine dispute between the parties and the Plaintiffs do not have standing to challenge the [large capacity magazine] ordinance,” the brief reads.

Pennsylvania has a firearms pre-emption law in place that is supposed to prevent local cities and municipalities from passing any local gun control laws that deal with “ownership, possession, transfer or …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms